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An Overview on the Middle Eastern Diaspora in the US: Challenges & Opportunities for Integration

Monday, April 19, 2021 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Turkish rug - detail

Preserving Dignity, Enriching Lives: The Arab American Communities. Presenter: Nahla Kayali.
Iranian Americans and the experience of discrimination. Presenter: Ali Akbar Mahdi.
Civic, Healthcare, and Immigration Rights: South Asian American Experiences. Presenter: Bilal H. Kazmi.
Turkish-American Experiences in Civic Engagement. Presenter: Dr. Ayca Altintig. Read more

Queering Abolitionist Efforts

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Queering Abolitionist Effors

The panelists will discuss LGBTQI+ experiences of criminalization and incarceration, especially as they relate to homophobia and transphobia. Central to the discussion will be these communities’ resistance to these forms of state violence. Particular attention will be placed on panelists’ abolitionists acts of surviving and thriving in a world that penalizes and criminalizes their very existence. Read more

Empowerment Through Performance Art

Wednesday, March 24, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Empowerment Through Performance Art - Microphone

SPEAKERS: KEASU’C NAPOLEON HILL, WILLIAM ALBERTO GONZALEZ, CEASAR KIRK AVELAR, JOE MARTINEZ. Join us for an afternoon of performance and discussion on experiences of incarceration, re-entry, and the healing power of art. This is part of the series “Collectively Understanding Carcerality and Learning Transformative Justice.”
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A Talk by Drs. Rosaura Sánchez & Beatrice Pita on The Californio Testimonios

Monday, March 22, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Rosaura Sanchez and B. Pita

In their talk at CSUN, Drs. Sánchez and Pita will examine the complicated and often conflicted identity formation of Californios. They will also discuss their recent study on Indigenous and Mexican dispossession. In Spatial and Discursive Violence in the U.S. Southwest (Duke University Press 2021), they critically examine the participation of Chicanxin the dispossession of Indigenous populations before being dispossessed themselves with the U.S. invasion of the Southwest. Their work  takes on an important  Read more

Navigating the Expungement Process

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Navigation the Expungement Process

In solidarity with Nation Expungement Week. Presented by CSUN's Project Rebound in collaboration with Root & Rebound, The Los Angeles Public Defender's Office, and The Social Impact Center. Read more

Eisner Judges on Eisner Week

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 4:00pm

Charles Hatfield panelist on Eisner Awards

Five past judges of Comic-Con's Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards, including English Department's Professor Charles Hatfield, discuss their selection process as well as the current state of the graphic novel. Read more

Incarceration, Family Separation, and Healing: A Conversation with Susan Burton and Antoinette Carter

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Incarceration, Family Separation, and Healing

Presented by Project Rebound and Community Alternatives to 911 and co-sponsored by Africana Studies, American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Center for the Study of the Peoples of the Americas, Central American and Transborder Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Civil Discourse & Social Change, College of Humanities, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Communication Studies, Criminology and Justice Studies, Deaf Studies, Educational Equity Committee, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, Educational Opportunity Program, Gender & Women’s Studies, History, Queer Studies, Office of Student Affairs, Office of the Provost, Revolutionary Scholars, and the University Student Union. Please email at least five business days prior to the event to request ASL interpreters. Read more

Call for Student Paper Submissions: Fourth CDSC Social Justice Student Conference

Friday, March 5, 2021 - 11:00pm

CALL FOR STUDENT PAPER SUBMISSIONS: FOURTH CDSC SOCIAL JUSTICE STUDENT CONFERENCE

Students: Please submit an abstract that provides a short summary (no longer than 200 words) of the content of the presentation/project/creative work. Abstract Submission Deadline: March 5th, 2021 Submit here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0nh2vRwwFMl5Qgxcl7UNXsoUAn1wLp_o2wBeQ6uoyKrvTDg/viewform

The conference features keynote addresses by graphic novel artist Thi Bui and documentary filmmaker Ciara Lacy

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